Email : soumobios@gmail.com ; Contact no : 9953128551
Broad Research Interest :
Abiotic stress physiology of angiosperms, Phytochemical analysis of plants and economic botany
Teaching Experiences
· Assistant Professor (guest lecturer) at Department of Botany, Shivaji College (University of Delhi) from 9.01.2015 – 18.03.2015
· Assistant Professor (ad-hoc) at Department of Botany, Shivaji College (University of Delhi) from 19.03.2015 – 22.05.2015
· Assistant Professor (ad-hoc) at Department of Botany, Ramjas College (University of Delhi) from 29.07.2015 – 5.12.2016
· Assistant Professor (permanent) at Department of Botany, Jangipur College (University of Kalyani) from 6.12.2016 to date
Symposium and workshop organized (National and International)
- Organizer in International Symposium on Plant Signaling and Behaviour, Delhi, 2014
- Organizer in national workshop on herbal/medicinal plants “Ankuran” at Shivaji College, University of Delhi, 2015
Workshop, Seminar and Conference attended (National and International)
- Participated in Indo-Italian conference on Aromatic and green chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Univeristy of Delhi 2012
- Seminar on Advanced techniques on HPLC and GC-MS (Waters, USA), Delhi 2010
- Seminar on Methodologies in Immunoblot and Immunohistochemistry (Abcam, UK), Delhi 2013
- Poster presentation in International Symposium on Plant Signaling and Behaviour, Delhi, 2014
- Participated in national workshop on herbal/medicinal plants “Ankuran” at Shivaji College, University of Delhi, 2015
- Poster presentation in International Symposium on Plant Signaling and Behaviour, Saint Petersburg, Russia 2016
- Participated in workshop on “Intellectual property rights” in Ramjas College, 2016
Recent major activities
· Evaluator for UG level theory examinations at Delhi University from 2015-2016
· Attended course’s committee meeting for modulation of syllabus and framing guidelines for practical evaluations at Delhi University from 2015-2016
· External and internal evaluator for practical examination at Delhi University from 2015-2016
· Member of garden committee for renovation of botanical garden in colleges at Delhi University from 2015- 2016
· Organized long excursions for UG level students at Ramjas College, Delhi University in 2015
· Involved in compilation of departmental SSR for NAAC evaluation at Ramjas College, Delhi University in 2015
Research activities
· Research area: Physiological and biochemical investigations of salt-stress induced changes during seedling growth in sunflower
· Worked as Junior Research Fellow from 2010-2012 at Department of Botany, University of Delhi
· (Investigations on NaCl stress-induced ouabain sensitive ATPase activity and localization)
· Worked as Senior Research Fellow from 2012-2015 at Department of Botany, University of Delhi
· (Investigations on NaCl stress-induced changes in serotonin and melatonin level and their localization; funded by Avh-foundation collaboration project, Germany, between Dr. Frantisek Baluska and Prof S.C. Bhatla)
Publications
· Mukherjee Sand Bhatla SC (2014) A novel fluorescence imaging approach to monitor salt stress-induced modulation of ouabain-sensitive ATPase activity in sunflower seedling roots. Physiol Plant 150: 540-549.
· Mukherjee S, David A, Yadav S, Baluška F and Bhatla SC (2014) Salt stress-induced seedling growth inhibition coincides with differential distribution of serotonin and melatonin in sunflower seedling roots and cotyledons. Physiol Plant 152: 714-728
· Kaur H, Mukherjee S, Baluska F and Bhatla SC (2015) Regulatory roles of serotonin and melatonin in abiotic stress tolerance in plants. Plant Signal Behav DOI:10.1080/15592324.2015.1049788
Book Chapter
Mukherjee S., Arora D., and Bhatla S.C. 2015. Serotonin and melatonin as metabolic signatures for the modulation of seed development, seedling growth and stress acclimatization. In Neurotransmitters – Serotonin and Melatonin in Plants: Their functional Role in Plants and Implications in Human Nutrition. Editors: Gokare A. Ravishankar and Akula Ramakrishna, Taylor and Francis, U.S.A.
Popular article
Mukherjee S and Ghosh S 2013. Root Neurobiology: A Mere Metaphor?. Botanica 62-63: 124-128